The #Senate confirmed by voice vote: Executive Calendar #1141 Nathaniel Fick to be Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy

Seven weeks out from the midterms, President Biden's long-stalled FCC nominee Gigi Sohn is now popping up as a prime-time election issue We wrote about these dynamics forming five months ago politico.com/news/2022/04/1…

ML Schumer filed cloture on the nomination of Arati Prabhakar to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

President Joe Biden calls on all UN member states to support Doreen Bogdan-Martin for Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union

The #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Arati Prabhakar to be Director of White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, 58-38. GOP in favor: Blunt, Burr, Cassidy, Collins, Lummis, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Rounds & Tillis. Dem voting against: Manchin. Not voting: Baldwin, Crapo & Risch.

Final Senate confirmation vote on White House OSTP director coming tomorrow afternoon

Big U.S. delegation heading to the ITU in Bucharest next week — it will include FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, NTIA chief Alan Davidson and Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves U.S. is rallying behind Doreen Bogdan-Martin for ITU secretary-general

Government funding CR dropped at midnight and would re-up the FCC's authority to hold spectrum auctions until Dec. 16 — that would set up more months of Hill wrangling over what spectrum priorities should guide the reauth Authority set to expire Friday appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

This is an overwhelming victory Doreen Bogdan-Martin received 139 votes out of 172 countries that voted. Russia's candidate Rashid Ismailov received 25 votes. x.com/ITU/status/157…

Doreen Bogdan-Martin prevails in this week’s ITU election to become secretary-general A win for the many U.S. and European officials championing her candidacy over her Russian rival

Schumer: The next roll call vote will be on Tues Nov 14 at 5:30 pm

The new UN telecoms chief, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, has called connectivity ‘life-saving,’ as countries limit access in the face of dissent. politico.eu/article/new-un…

Starlink is still seeking to obtain nearly $900 million in rural broadband subsidies that the FCC denied the company in August

NEW: "There's not just SpaceX there are other entities that we can certainly partner with when it comes to providing Ukraine what they need on the battlefield," Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh. "I'm not going to show our hand right now on exactly who those are or

UPDATE: A senior Viasat official tells me the company is working to use available terminals in Ukraine. This comes after Musk says it is unaffordable for SpaceX to donate Starlink comms. politico.com/news/2022/10/1…

BREAKING: DOJ unveils charges in alleged scheme to undermine US prosecution of Chinese telecom giant Huawei. Feds provided fake info to defendants as part of a sting. AG Garland calls case 'egregious'

today’s POLITICO Digital Future Daily is on the chatter at CES re: Decoupling, Onshoring, Realignment, and all the other big fuzzy trade words: politico.com/newsletters/di…

Hear the following House Rs got onto coveted Energy and Commerce: -Allen -Weber -Balderson -Fulcher -Pfluger -Harshbarger -Miller Meeks -Cammack -Obernolte

Amazon doesn’t need government funding to flood Earth’s lower orbit with hundreds of satellites offering high-speed internet, but it could use a hand dodging space junk and ensuring bandwidth is efficiently allocated. politico.com/news/2023/03/1…

The Affordable Connectivity Program helps 22 million households pay their internet bills. If Congress can't come up with the funds to extend the program by spring, millions of Americans could lose internet aid months before the 2024 election. politico.com/news/2024/01/0…